A.J.
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How often can I add new chapters and stories?
A.J. posted a question in Story Archive Author Questions
Authors in the moderation queue: When submitting a new story to the site, do NOT post more than the first chapter, or prologue and the first chapter. Additionally, while you remain in the moderation queue, do not post more than one new chapter or new story until the existing chapter/story is approved. The moderation queue is typically reviewed once per day. Do not use the post-dating system while you remain in the moderation queue. All other authors: When publishing a new story to the site, do NOT publish more than the first chapter, or prologue and the first chapter. For existing stories, one new chapter can be published per day. No more than two stories can be updated per day with at least 8 hours between updates. You can save as many chapters to the system as you like per day. The system will enforce publish times for chapters when you set publish times. Why the limitation you ask? We want our site's visitors to have a chance to read or sample a variety of works submitted each day by our authors. When authors submit too many stories or chapters at once these other works are sometimes lost in the process. We've found stories posted over longer periods of time attract more attention and therefore readers. Not every reader visits daily, so they are more likely to give your story a chance if each time they visit they see a new chapter in the list of recent story updates. Spacing out submissions is a win/win for both your work and your fellow authors' work.-
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Open two working versions of MS Paint via the Start Menu. One for the collage and one for the pictures you'll be using for the collage. In the Collage version: Click Resize > Select pixel circle > Set image size for the overall collage In the Pictures version: Click File > Click Open > Select image from computer folder/drive/USB Click Resize to reduce image size by percentage or pixels by selecting circles and adjusting numbers in field boxes Select Copy Switch back to Collage version: Click Paste Move pasted image to placement you wish on collage Repeat steps 2-7 for additional images Save collage
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So, it could be a few things: 1. We just updated to a new version of our upstream forum software. While there isn't a report of this being an issue, they could've messed up notifications. 2. It could be a system/database issue. To address that possibility I just ran database maintenance and rebooted the server. I didn't see anything that pointed to corruption, but better safe than sorry. My hope is that maintenance will magically cure whatever it was that caused this, but most likely we'll never know why this happened unless we find out it's a bug with the newest upstream forum software. Right now this will get added to the list of unsolved mysteries like the Bermuda Triangle, D.B. Cooper, Area 51, and why people like songs that are utter crap.
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No number truly gives you a one hundred percent accurate representation for how many people actually read the content of the chapter. We'll be rolling out a more extensive set of story analytics to authors later this year. Additionally, your suggestion would invalidate the statistics for those that post collections of shorts and poetry where a later chapter might legitimately be read more than an earlier chapter. At this time I see no reason to make any changes.
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@BHopper2 has answered this question correctly. Viewing a chapter or viewing the story page counts as a view.
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I'm a bit unsure of what went wrong. I did a quick unpublish/republish on 11 and 12 and both magically showed up in the list. There isn't enough data to support a conclusion at this time.
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As I said, it's not broke now that I can see. That chapter is from April 2015 which was the old system. It has 14k hits in our test system which is a one-time copy of GA we made back in early 2017. That was well above the rest of the chapters. Clearly that chapter has something special about it because it's received another 12k hits since then. But I can't even say for certain that equals a bug. What if it contains a specific series of words that makes it show up in Google searches? Then I'd just be hunting down a non-existent bug that was the result of weird search formulas. I could say the same thing about your reputation though. Your's is 26, 806 and mine is 1,606. But how many bugs have you fixed? That number's likely wrong. I'll go fix it.
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I'm not saying it wasn't broke at some point in the past, but it doesn't appear to be broke right now. I just tested with a story and a chapter and it worked flawlessly. It updates about every 5 minutes so if you go to a chapter of your story, hit refresh 20 times, and then wait 5-10 minutes you should see the increase show up. Regarding later chapters having higher numbers than previous chapters, that's usually people finding the site from the Internet and opening links not realizing it's not the first chapter. Sometimes site activity is higher and if your story post coincides with that period of time, or if you post and there is considerable time before the next author posts a story/chapter, you can see a far greater response because of that. As they say, out of sight, out of mind.
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When members ask me if Myr really started GA in 2002...
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A.J. changed their profile photo
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Done.
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There probably won't be any immediate answers on this issue. It's complex and it's going to take time.
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@Carlos Hazday I did fix this story and chapter 1 on January 3rd, but then you re-edited chapter 1 on the 10th which screwed something up. I'm not sure why that happened, but it clearly did. I've fixed the entries.
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I've only applied the fix to one area so far. I'm still working on applying it to other areas.
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Can you screenshot an example? I'm not seeing this on my side and it's definitely accurate in the reputation index. It could be something only seen by the person so I'd like to make sure I can replicate it exactly to trace the code in question.
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@Carlos Hazday I've fixed the statistics display bug you reported above.
